Webinar: Plastic Chemicals in Our Food

How to Eat Less Plastic

Consumer Reports’ recent investigation into food contaminants had some unsettling findings: many of the foods we buy for our families contain concerning amounts of plastic chemicals known as phthalates. How do these chemicals get in our food, and what are the health risks from eating them? Are there safer alternatives? And what's the difference between plasticizers and microplastics, anyway?

In this discussion, we were joined by experts from Consumer Reports and EarthJustice about what these findings mean for your health, how you can lessen your exposure to plastic chemicals, and how we can take collective action to get these chemicals out of our food.

Katherine O'Brien
Senior Attorney, Toxic Exposure and Health Program, EarthJustice

Next steps:

Join the CR Food Safety Corps: https://action.consumerreports.org/plasticsinfood

Learn more about Earthjustice's work: https://earthjustice.org/brief/2023/its-time-to-ban-these-toxic-chemicals-from-our-food

Speakers

Brian Ronholm

Director, Food Policy

James E. Rogers

Director, Food Safety Research & Testing

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